24799 (2025). Hon Barbara Edmonds to the Minister of Internal Affairs
Written Question
Published date: 09 Jun 2025
24799 (2025). Hon Barbara Edmonds to the Minister of Internal Affairs: What advice, memos, briefings, aide-mémoire, or any other documents, if any, has the Minister received regarding Budget 2025, by title and date?
Hon Brooke van Velden: I received the following documents from the Department of Internal Affairs in relation to Budget 2025.
• Budget 2025: Draft Templates – Internal Affairs Portfolio (5 December 2024);
• Budget 2025 Final Templates and Submission Letter – Internal Affairs portfolio (12 December 2024);
• Appropriation history, Crown funding movement since 2017, Deep Dive into key Departmental appropriations, and Possible Savings Options (18 December 2024);
• Results of further evaluation of services provided by the Department to identify additional baseline savings (23 January 2025);
• [Title withheld] (3 February 2025);
• Update on Budget 2025 Baseline Savings Programme (13 February 2025);
• Budget 2025 Baseline Savings Programme - Draft Templates (18 February 2025);
• Budget 2025 Baseline Savings Programme – Final Templates and Submission Letter (20 February 2025);
• Budget 2025 Draft Documentation for Vote Internal Affairs (12 March 2025);
• Continuing the Preservation of at-risk Crown Heritage Collections (21 March 2025);
• Budget 2025: Preliminary Budget Ministers’ decisions – Vote Internal Affairs (3 April 2025);
• Budget 2025 Technical Initiatives for Vote Internal Affairs - Internal Affairs portfolio (3 April 2025);
• Budget 2025 – Estimates documentation for Vote Internal Affairs: Draft as at 8 April 2025 (8 April 2025);
• Budget 2025: Final Budget Ministers’ decisions – Vote Internal Affairs (10 April 2025);
• Budget 2025 Final Estimates documentation for Vote Internal Affairs (17 April 2025); and
• Budget Day Briefing - Internal Affairs portfolio (12 May 2025).